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The median published figure in the Labour Productivity Benchmark is 2.40 percent across 5 figures from 3 sources' own pages (range 0.70 to 4.60 percent), read 12 October 2026.

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2.4 % Median published figure +54.8% since 26 Sept 2026 middle half 0.7 to 3.5 %
0.7 to 4.6 % Range a 3.9 % spread; quartiles 0.7 and 3.5
5 Sources with a figure of 18 read in full, 21 Oct 2026
3 of 18 Sources read that publish one 17% publish a figure at all
  1. ONS productivity flash estimate and overview, UK4.6 %
  2. BLS Productivity home (US nonfarm business output per hour)2.4 %
  3. ONS regional and subregional labour productivity, UK2.4 %
  4. ONS productivity flash estimate and overview, UK0.7 %
  5. ONS regional and subregional labour productivity, UK0.7 %
One figure per source, highest first.median 2.4 %
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RowValue
ONS productivity flash estimate and overview, UK4.6 %
BLS Productivity home (US nonfarm business output per hour)2.4 %
ONS regional and subregional labour productivity, UK2.4 %
ONS productivity flash estimate and overview, UK0.7 %
ONS regional and subregional labour productivity, UK0.7 %

3 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 15 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is up 0.85 percent since 26 September 2026 (was 1.55 percent across 4).

By area and country

BreakdownMedianRangeSources
areaUS2.4%2.4 to 2.4%1
areaGB0.7%0.7 to 0.7%2
areaGB-north-west2.4%2.4 to 2.4%1
countryGB4.6%4.6 to 4.6%1

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

The sentence each figure was read from (5)

Read in full, publishes no figure

15 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

3 of the 18 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 15 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 5 figures, never sentences; 40 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per country per industry per period: output per hour worked at its published level and growth, joined across the national offices that each publish only their own country, with the OECD and Conference Board frames used to place a country in the distribution.

The figures nobody publishes are the JOINED ones: the gap between an industry's output per hour and the same industry in the best-performing country, the industry ranking inside a country, the spread between the best and worst region of one country (ONS publishes ITL regions, BLS publishes states, nobody puts them side by side), and the changed-since on every release date.

40 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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The median published figure in the Labour Productivity Benchmark is 2.40 percent across 5 figures from 3 sources' own pages (range 0.70 to 4.60 percent), read 12 October 2026.

3 of the 18 named sources read in full publish a figure; 15 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

Labour Productivity Benchmark, area US: median 2.40 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.

Labour Productivity Benchmark, area GB: median 0.70 percent across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026.

Labour Productivity Benchmark, area GB-north-west: median 2.40 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.

Labour Productivity Benchmark, country GB: median 4.60 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.

The median is up 0.85 percent since 26 September 2026 (was 1.55 percent across 4).

Cite as: "Orgplanly Labour Productivity Benchmark", updated 2026-10-21, https://orgplanly.com/datasets/labour-productivity-benchmark/.

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2.40 percent

median published figure, Labour Productivity Benchmark, across 3 sources, read 12 October 2026

Source: Orgplanly Labour Productivity Benchmark

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